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Caloroga Shark Media. Man, what a game, huh? And that halftime show wow? And that thing Taylor did And now I tape this in advance. I watched the super Bowl yesterday.
We’ll talk about the super Bowl tomorrow. Hello. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This is the week where Shane Gillis will host Saturday Night Live, and it is being well discussed even in the UK. The Independent, under the headline SNL hosts Shane Gillis maybe offensive, but he isn’t the devil.
They’re right. After his initial firing by SNL, Shane Gillis was championed by many on the American right as a victim of cancel culture. Some have gone further imposing political beliefs onto Gillis, such as support of Donald Trump that he’s never personally espoused. In twenty nineteen, Gillis clarified he had not voted for Trump, and he says, as soon as they decide you’re a bad guy, you’re just all right now or something. The Independent Rights watch Gillis a show, and you can’t deny his materials.
Liable to a fen. He doesn’t shy away from certain slurs and mixed crash jokes about sensetive topics. But in the world of comedy this is hardly disqualifying from Bill Bird or Frankie Boyle. There are plenty of precedents, liberal or left wing or centrist comedians who are more than willing to throw around our offensive words or ideas for the sake of a laugh at a provoke a reaction. Louis c.
K the now disgraced to stand up whose creative influence is unmissible in Gillis’s style, was one’s a dept at this taking an objectional or distasteful thought and carrying on stage too. It’s natural extreme. You may recall a pre canceled Louis c. K as being compared to George Carlin the independent rights. To some extent, The question comes down to intent, to whether or not the comedy is hateful or simply problematic.
Look, for instance, at Gillis’s routine about down syndrome. There are things in there to object to it. Generalizations, patronizations, all done with gleeful awareness of the taboo, but within the same material they’re also affectionate and seemingly well intentioned. To observational jokes about a family member with down syndrome. To brand it outright hate speech would take a black and white, deeply unpragmatic view of the world.
Comedy can be hardful without being hateful, and some jokes are more harmful than others. Expect some sparks to fly during the opening monologue, but this is more likely to be a bearing of a hatchet than a resumption of grievances. At the end of the day. Shane Gillis has always seemed less interested in his scoring political points than it’s simply going for the laugh at whatever cost. Megan Kelly and I’m just gonna go first.
This is really stupid. She took a shot at Shane Gillis and other celebrities because they bend the need of bud Light. He went from doing slurs that the left finds upsetting to issuing one out of his mouth the right finds upsetting, which is bud Light. Really, really, really, I mean just really, you’re mad that Shane Gillis is selling bud Light. I’ll tell you right now, if bud Light wants to sponsor the show for ten years, write the check.
Megan said, I’m actually not sure what he’s doing either, because not only is he going on SNL but he’s partnering with bud Light, which is basically a slur in Republican circles on I’ll insult my friend Mike and Cleveland. Hey, Mike, I bet you drink bud Light. Who oh, maybe I can get canceled. I bet Taylor Swift drinks bud Light. Bring it swifty, so it’s called Daily Comedy News.
Megan Kelly said, well, you cope buy bud Light because Shane Gillis got paid a bunch of money to go speak for them. Does that help your life? Oh? My, find something to talk about, Megan, Actually, don’t keep doing this because this is great content for me. Media in Toto asked, is the left trying to recancel Shane Gillis on SNL?
Right? So, Shane, the right hates you because bud Light, and now the left hates you too. Everyone hates Shane Gillis. He has no fans whatsoever. I don’t know why he’s hosting SNL because both the left and the right hate him.
I guess centrists loves Shane Gillis. Medium Toto Rights take NBC News the far left outlet publish an essay entitled with Shane Gillis return snl Asians ass when they’ll stop being the punchline? It covered that, I think last Friday Toto Rights. Is there anything new here? Of course not.
Does Gillis make it a habit of specifically targeting Asian people, of course not. Does he spend endless hours in front of a podcast Mike squeezing funny observations from every source possible? Of course? Do those Asian riffs represent his best work? Of course not nothing.
He threw some shade and wrote, Howard Stern has said far, far worse than his days, and he’s never been canceled. Well, the media has been complicent in the establishment Howard myth of the last ten years. Howard is now. Howard has laid groundwork that his obituary would be that he was the great interviewer. And I haven’t enjoyed late period Howard, loved early period Howard.
And there are things that I listened to or I watched on his TV show that have been just washed from the internet. But this idea that Howard Stern’s career was he interviewed people. Come on, no, no, no, no, wa’tch you google Howard Stern blackface website them, writes Shane Gillis hosting Saturday Night Live as a slap in the face to queer viewers, even as the show court’s LGBTQ plus fans. It platforms comics like Gillis and Dave Chappelle. They’re write in the comedy world.
It was a banner week for queer phobia, not that it’s ever gone out of style. Al Dave Chappelle, who treats anti transmockery like a holy crusade, won his fifth Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in six years.
Meanwhile, Shane Gillis wrote America’s hard right word pivot straight into a…
I’ll chime in, except we just learned that the right hates him because he promotes bud Light them rights. If Gillis’s name means less than zero to you, congratulations on your blissful life, you offline legend went for a run, Humble Bragg, I’m so out of shape, Oh my goodness. You can go from marathon ready ish to completely out of shape in let’s say it’s just in three months, Oh my goodness. On the run. I listened to Mark Maren’s fantastic interview with John Oliver.
So much fun and it went so quickly. I thought it was interesting. At the beginning in the monologue segment, Maren is self aware. I had brought up recently that sometimes Maren and younger comedians kind of don’t connect. Maybe Maren listens to me, because he said sometimes I could be a little pokey and a little mild chap busting going on, some slight bullying occasionally.
In the interview, John Oliver talked about not getting the Daily Show, and I’m going to play the actual clip or comment dafter here’s John. I didn’t state the Daily Show because John was still there and no, but even if you were set up to be the next guy, did that factor into your decision not to follow up on that the next guy for to host their show to Daily Show to the Daily Show? They didn’t. I think it was clear when we would do because my contract expired at the end of the year that I hosted for John over that summer, and I think it became clear at the end of that they didn’t really care about me, oh really, And because I think our idea for me to stay this is our ideas being just John and I was that I would do the summers from now on and then so he could take he could take the summers off, which he wanted a break. I think they could have had him for longer if they’d allowed that, but they were not interested in that at all.
So then it becomes clear, Oh, then you really don’t care, right, which is fine, but it is now painfully obvious. So I should probably go somewhere okay, And then yeah, talking to various commercial outlets, there was just an innate instinct of I don’t I could do this. I don’t think it’ll go great. Yeah, there might be a way that I can find myself to doing the things that I used to love let theman doing when he’s just criticizing his parent company. But that was but I don’t have the let no, I just like I always love that instinct with him, but I had no standing with hers to do that.
So a much easier move that the luxury move to me, was to go to HBO, where there is no corporate commercial pressure from advertisers, so you truly can say what you want, right. So they didn’t want John Oliver. That’s a swing and a miss. I always wondered did Stuart not tell anyone that he was leaving soon, because wouldn’t you want to hold on to John Oliver? But this kind of clears up that Oliver didn’t feel like they wanted him.
They did a good job that summer, and apparently HBO agrees. Tom Poppa hosted the poll Star Awards didn’t even know these were going on. Taylor Swift won major Tour of the Year, and that is an understatement well deserved. And if you want to keep up on Taylor Swift, follow the podcast Taylor Swift Today. I’m sure they’re talking about whatever happened at the Super Bowl.
Taylor was not in attendance because she was playing to Kyo, but Dave Chappelle stop by he won Comedy Tour of the Year. Dave said, I used to take this stuff for granted, but this last tour was hard as if. I want to thank everyone at Live Nation, everyone on that team, everyone at Netflix. That was a real special tour. It was a hard one, but man, this stuff is great.
The New York Times went to see Amy Poehler and Tina Fay. They’re doing some stand up. Apparently Tina Fey asked, are there any dads in the crowd who had either Tina or Amy As Hall passes two decades ago, Many hands shut up. The Times writes, if the phrase mom jeans makes you instantly crack up, you’ll love this show. So this is really emotionally confusing to me, because I think they’re targeting people who are exactly my age, and I’d like to think I’m slightly cooler than this.
I’m so confused. Faye is all sharp edges and slashing wit, her deadpan unshakeable, keeping the audience and her partner at a distance. Amy Poehler is more vulnerable, even a bit fragile. Discussing kids, trauma raging, She jokes, my memories like a cat, it will not come when called. She of course told it better, because that is obviously a hilarious joke.
Some Times writes, the show itself is to throw everything at the wall, mess of visually in different collection of parts, some that probably would have been cutter owned by a ruthless director. Ouch. There were sex jokes and mom jokes. Jokes A written the day of the show about President Biden making an appearance on the Upper West Side that joke again and I don’t know who told it, and obviously told much better than this. The traffic has in this bad since the opening scene of Fame.
Yeah, there’s an okay Donald Trump joke that receives a big response and a strong OCD punch line that doesn’t. There were jokes that only New Yorkers were get. I’m not sure who told this one. I took the four train and I didn’t even have a doctor’s appointment. Yeah, New Yorkers would get that joke.
That’s not a bad New York joke. Tina Fay said, this really feels just like S and L, except they were in bed by ten and I don’t have to go to a weird Tuesday night dinner with Warren Michaels and Rudy Giuliani. That’s funny. Donnel Rawlings will have a new special produced by Chappelle’s Home Team Production Banner. This was recorded last fall at the New York Comedy Festival at the hard Rock.
It is titled Chappelle’s Home Team Donnell Rawlings A New Day. The log line reads, It’s a new day and Donnell Rawlings is feeling good, dressed in a blue suit, red sox, and lotion ankles, easier to discuss, toxic relationships, traveling New Zealand, aging, co parting, and much more. Chappelle told Variety, I’ve been doing this long time. Comedians like Donnell are not only friends but have inspired my own career. Anyone in the comedy community who knows these names and knows their time to shine is long overdue.
I’m proud to be part of this moment A new day Netflix, February twenty seventh. Fox is hot on Animal Control. That’s the Joel McHale sitcom that you probably watched two episodes of and forgot it existed. It’s back for its second season on March sixth. They’ve already renewed it for a third season.
Animal Control had Fox’s most stream debut in network history and the most streamed comedy episode ever in the network’s history. Does that include the Simpson Nice lineup at the Comedy Seller at the Rio tonight for still in Town after the Super Bowl Candle Awards, Sophie Buttle, who was Great, Marshall Warfield, Josh Adam Myers, and Mark Cohen seven to nine thirty at the Comedy Cellar. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow,